The Geneva Grand Council has sunk a plan to create a public footpath that would have run all along the lakeside.
The bill put forward by the Socialist party aimed to guarantee access to the lake side with a path at least 2 meters wide, which could only deviate if there was an ecological reason.
But the right-wing, majority on the council voted against.
Liberal Radical Party member of the Grand Council, Vincent Subilia, says the bill was ‘anti-rich’, but added path would threaten bio-diversity and the cost of buying a strip of land from private owners would be extortionate.
He added some areas are legally problematic because many lakeside properties are owned by diplomatic missions.
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